Pima cotton is the predominant variety of cotton grown in California. It’s ideal for making premium fabrics for clothing and bed sheets. But Fusarium wilt disease, caused by a soil-borne fungus, can devastate a cotton crop. And this can be a very damaging disease in terms of greatly reducing yields, and to some extent, even making cotton uneconomical as a crop in a region. As it becomes more difficult to produce something economically, the only way to keep producing it is to have the cost of everything go up. So it’s responsible for crop losses in several production regions in the U.S. and worldwide.
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